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It was back to school for many last week and into this week as well. Now that the barbecue has cooled, kids are off learning, and the house is quiet once again, let's take the opportunity to focus and get some of those administrative tasks we've all been putting off dealt with once and for all. That in mind, let us help! On the tail of yesterday's post guiding you through Fix Central downloads, here's a list of the latest downloads over the past few weeks from Rational Support to help you find the fixes you need: Rational... [More]

Ah, yes, it IS that time of year when many Americans roll out that one last big blow-out barbecue party before the summer comes to a close and we look toward welcoming winter, albeit a bit trepidatiously. While the holiday has indeed come to symbolize the end of summer for many of us (it isn't, summer doesn't end until September 22), it started and remains as an American federal holiday to honor the worker; a day when we recognize the contributions of the American worker by relaxing and eating lots of BBQ All this, of... [More]

Yup, we're still "working outside the inbox" here. Along with Luis Suarez Kelly Smith and I continue driving and evangelizing the idea in hopes it will take hold and help create a new business culture of open, transparent, and collaborative work. To that end, I recently built a presentation now hosted on Slideshare to help illustrate our efforts as we documented them here in our Notes from Rational Support " WOTI " blog series. We've tried to distill the core concepts, ideals, and recommendations down to their essence and... [More]

You may have noticed, we’ve been building our systems community by offering over 15 IBM Systems and Software Engineering Symposiums this year at no cost to you! These are face-to-face customer events where you can learn how IBM Rational is helping to lead the innovation agenda in product and systems development. Industry experts are on-site to discuss applying system engineering best practices with measurable benefits leveraging customer examples and proof points. These events focus on the IBM Rational solution for systems... [More]

There are new videos available on IBM Education Assistant for Rational . There is now a series of videos covering RRDI, a reporting component for the CLM V4.0 applications Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer. These videos present an overview and demonstration of how to install, configure, and run initial reports with RRDI. Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence You can locate these videos HERE . The topics covered: RRDI reporting and installation overview Creating content store... [More]

Check out this new video and learn how IBM Rational Developer for System z enables development of DB2 and SQL databases, plus so much more! Database development with DB2 and SQL - The IBM Rational Developer for System z workbench contains breakthrough software technology for developing applications in PL/I, Cobol, Assembler, and C/C++. This demo explores the tools and features for DB2 and SQL database development. ?

Join us, along with Dr. Michio Kaku , at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore, October 9-11 to explore, learn, collaborate, and meet the thought leaders! Explore the 10 Hot Topics that address key business imperatives: unleashing innovation, managing the velocity of change, reinventing relationships and uncovering new markets. Learn best practices directly from successful IBM clients, business partners, and executives. Collaborate with business decision-making peers, and see how they are working with technology leaders to fulfill the vision... [More]

Check out these new white papers from Rational Support that cover integrations involving Rational Quality Manager, Rational Publishing Engine, and Rhapsody: White paper: Use Rational Publishing Engine with Rational Rhapsody Abstract: The whitepaper introduces the basics of using IBM Rational Publishing Engine (RPE) to extract data from IBM Rational Rhapsody. RPE helps in creating reports to represent data in a user friendly format. This white paper is useful for project support team, system and software engineers, and also for the... [More]

The numbers are in for the top content covering Rational Change, Focal Point, and Quality Manager! This list is based on data showing the top content reused by our Support Engineers to help solve PMRs over the month of July. As an admin or user of Change, Focal Point, or Quality Manager, we're sure you'll find some great information to either help solve issues you're currently struggling with, or even avoid them altogether! Rational Change 7021564 Fix list for Rational Change 5.2 1497434 About the large temporary files in the... [More]

Summertime is the perfect time to relax and sip some iced tea by the pool side, but that doesn't mean we in IBM Rational stop creating great articles to help you get the job done! No way! We're still working hard for you, even IF your loyal blog editor here hasn't highlighted them in a while. For that I beg your forgiveness and present to you the following items that have recently gone live over the past three weeks on developerWorks Rational : During the week of August 13th, 2012: How agile practices aid development of complex... [More]

License Borrow: Borrow If you need one, and return back at your convenience. What do we understand when we talk about borrowing a license? Lets talk about borrowing. In arithmetic, when a digit become smaller than limit and the deficiency is taken from the next digit to the left in order to serve the need. So the word Borrow or borrowing can mean: to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. Lets see the similarity between the above mentioned definition in terms of licenses: License Borrowing feature allows... [More]

Check them out below, or head over to their Youtube Channel here ! Using My inventories for product selection - This video discusses enhancements of the IBM Support Portal to make product selection easier for you based on knowing more about your inventory. Visit the IBM Support Portal at: http://ibm.co/SupportPortalfromYT And don't miss these other two great videos from IBM Electronic Support as well! Locale Specific Links to the IBM Support Portal - This quick tip video discusses the worldwide, locale-specific enhancements IBM is making to... [More]

With Kelly moving on to her new role , we (she and I) thought this would make a perfect time to set another milestone on our Working Outside the Inbox (WOTI) series with some lessons learned, some failures, and some successes as well. Make no mistake though, just because we are recapping our blog series does not mean we are abandoning the WOTI ideas and principles. Far from it, in fact. As you'll find below, from our experiences with the initiative we are more dedicated than ever to using the right tools for open and transparent... [More]

Introduction on renewals concepts: Why you need to apply maintenance to a license file or need to renew a license (even when a license file says permanent), let's start with a software purchase: When you purchase a product/software you will have a valid maintenance (date in the license file) for one year (license type will be permanent though), From the next year onwards, the license needs to be renewed in order to download the latest release of the software/product, So the renewal of license will entitle a user for support and the upgrade... [More]

Just a quick note to let you know that I have accepted a new role in IBM, still focused on collaboration, communities, and knowledge-sharing, but outside of Rational Client Support. It's been a great ride, and I'm looking forward to new opportunities and challenges. Notes from Rational Support is going strong and I leave you in the Most Capable Hands of my Wonder Twin, Jason O'Donnell and the growing cadre of bloggers in Rational Client Support. They, and everyone else at Rational Client Support, inspire me every single day with... [More]

Integrating Rational Focal Point with Rational solution for CLM applications, Part 1 - Set up: Learn about Rational Focal Point integration with the requirements management and change and configuration management applications of Rational Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management. Part 1 of this demo series includes: Setting up a workspace, adding members to a workspace, and assigning roles. For the remaining 4 parts below, be sure to click through the title link to get to the videos... you won't want to miss these: Integrating... [More]

Things have slowed a bit now with Summer holidays and vacations. But fear not, we've still been busy working to bring you the latest fixpacks and releases for your products to make sure you're running in the best possible environments you can. So, why not take this quiet summer Monday, grab another cup of coffee, and check out the following Rational downloads which have been released over the past few weeks since July 27th, 2012: Rational Functional Tester Fix Pack 1 (8.2.2.1) for 8.2.2 HOD10010_Aix_SplBld_20120223_0753... [More]

For some reason I am not as yet able to identify, there has been a great amount of increased chatter across the internet surrounding Google's 20% time concept . Perhaps it is the ever growing need for us to filter through all the information flooding us every day and take time to focus on the things that make us happiest. While Google has formalized the idea into more structured policy, here in IBM Rational we've been doing the same kind of thing for quite a while now, albeit in a more unstructured way; a bit looser to help the creativity... [More]

Licenses and their types: What Is a License? A software license (or software licence in normal English & Commonwealth usage) is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law) governing the usage or redistribution of software. All software is copyright protected, except material in the public domain. Contractual confidentiality is another way of protecting software. A typical software license grants an end-user permission to use one or more copies of software in ways where such a use would otherwise potentially constitute... [More]

During August and September IBM Rational Client Support will be conducting a Customer Orientation Webcast series, geared specifically for our new Green Hat clients, but open for anyone to attend. We are inviting you and your clients to attend our August/September Customer Orientation Webcast series, and to help ensure that you get the maximum utlization out of your IBM products. During this informative 45 minutess presentation and Q&A, we'll explain how to: Obtain the most out of your IBM Support Experience. We will walk you through... [More]